Robert A. Johnson has more than 20 years of experience in commercial litigation, much of it relating to bankruptcy. He has spent significant time in the past two years advising clients regarding broker insolvency and counterparty risk. In 2007, he was a co-author of an Akin Gump client alert entitled, “What Would Happen To Your Account Holdings If Your Prime Broker Failed?”
Mr. Johnson's recent matters have involved—
- representing an official committee of unsecured creditors in one of the largest bank holding company bankruptcies in history, involving the interplay of commercial bankruptcy issues and FDIC failed bank receivership issues
- litigating against the Enron bankruptcy estate regarding termination and netting of energy trading contracts
- resolving a securities customer's disputes, in the Refco bankruptcy, regarding repurchase agreements and options
- representing creditors in other bankruptcies regarding valuation of assets sold by debtors
- prosecuting and defending fraudulent conveyance actions in bankruptcies
- defending a commodities exchange in a patent infringement suit regarding the electronic trading of commodity futures.
Mr. Johnson received his B.A. with honors in international relations from Stanford University in 1985 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988. While practicing law full time, he also completed an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 2002, with coursework focusing on corporate finance, valuation and financial statement analysis.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the New York Bar.